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The cold view to take of our future is that we are therefore headed for extinction in a universe of impersonal chemical, physical, and biological laws. A more productive, certainly more engaging view, is that we have the intelligence to grasp what is happening, the composure not to be intimidated by its complexity, and the courage to take steps that may bear no fruit in our lifetimes. Barry Lopez
views practice together
In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible for what he does and justly punished if he offends. That view, together with its associated practices, must be re-examined when a scientific analysis reveals unsuspected controlling relations between behavior and environment. B. F. Skinner
views sky limits
Used to tell me the sky's the limit, now the sky is our point of view. Big Sean
views ideas political
I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values. Antoni Tapies
views months compromise
A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the result of months and months of wrangling and disputation and ultimately compromise. That's where the brilliance of the American system is -- it's always been built on compromise. Bill Vaughan
views law two
In my view there are basically two types of weddings. There is the wedding that is based on law, and there is the wedding that is based on Christ and based on grace. We felt that those who have been married by the law, they would like to have that special privilege and benefit by being married by the church.
views other-worlds earth
But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human. Bertrand Russell
views income carbon
There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters. Al Gore
views long special
When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled. Charles Darwin
months three worked
Some have worked three months and some just started this week. Brad Anderson
months three time upsetting
Out of all the time that I've been on the floor, I think probably once every three months you'll get an upsetting call. Derek Kool
months knows
When you do movies, it's you have a 3-month family and then everybody goes away and then joins another family, you know? Ashton Kutcher
months three time
I went up to see Hopper the other night, which was the first time in three months that I have been back of a theater, and it was like going home.
months period placed solitary stayed ten year
I was placed in solitary confinement for a year and ten months out of the period in which I stayed in prison, which was just over two years. Wole Soyinka
months six technology wonder
I wonder what this technology is up here, ... (Rewind it) to six months ago. You'd get the same answers. Nick Saban
months positive reason six understood unless
It could well be - unless there's a very substantial reason as to why this is positive that is to be understood - anything from six months to two years. Gordon Taylor
months
I think it will be months and months before you see this clarified.
months
I lived in Calcutta for five months in 1999. While I was there, I read many journals, diaries, collections of letters and histories. Susanna Moore
compromise hard management open refusing taking unless
Management is taking a very hard line, refusing to compromise. We are open to compromise, and unless they do, we will have a strike.
compromise patriot
I think there will be a compromise on the Patriot Act. Charles Schumer
compromise control coverage eventually jump passing teams tempo
That's their way to control the tempo of the game, but when you do that you compromise your coverage, You have man-to-man coverage every play, and they can't do that all day. Teams will eventually jump out of it or we are going to be a passing team, because we can do both. We're two-dimensional.
compromise last offer seven sixth union
That's the sixth compromise offer we have made in the last seven days, and the musicians' union has made none.
compromise conditions forward health looking race racing
I was really looking forward to the race because I know I can do well on this hill. But I really wouldn't want to compromise my health by racing in conditions like today.
compromise good happy peace positive
I think a good compromise was reached. Now the only thing to do is heal. Now we try and find peace and use it for something positive in our lives. I want us to be happy again.
compromise
I think this was a compromise that everyone could live with.
compromise confident problem
I am confident they want a solution. The problem is, they want it on their own terms, and they are going to have to compromise on that.
compromise married
I always wanted to get married in the fall. So we made a compromise. Jill Taylor